Jan Golian

Jan Golian (26 January 1906-1945) was a Brigadier-General of Czechoslovakia who was one of the leaders of the Slovak National Uprising in 1945.

Biography
Jan Golian was born on 26 January 1906 in Dombovar, Hungary, Austria-Hungary. Golian rose to the rank of Brigadier-General in the Czechoslovak Army in the Interwar Years, and he joined the anti-Nazi movement within the First Slovak Republic during World War II. Golian served as the deputy of Rudolf Viest during the Slovak National Uprising in 1944, leading the Slovak forces in central Slovakia. However, he was arrested after the uprising was crushed by Nazi Germany, and Golian died in the Flossenburg concentration camp sometime in 1945.